{"id":106563,"date":"2025-01-02T21:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106563"},"modified":"2025-01-02T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:25:44","slug":"106563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106563","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorenewsnetwork.com\/2025\/01\/01\/security-guard-claims-deadly-new-years-eve-shooting-was-self-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Security Guard claims deadly New Year\u2019s Eve shooting was self defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2014 A man was fatally shot Tuesday night in the Germantown neighborhood after allegedly charging at a security guard with a knife, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the 14th District responded to a report of a \u201cPerson with a Gun\u201d at the 5500 block of Germantown Avenue at approximately 8:15 p.m. Upon arrival, they found an unresponsive Black male with a gunshot wound to the chest and multiple self-inflicted stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was transported to Jefferson Einstein Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the armed security guard for a banquet hall in the area told officers he acted in self-defense after the decedent approached him with a knife. The security guard remained at the scene and cooperated with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing under the Homicide Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Guard claims deadly New Year\u2019s Eve shooting was self defense PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2014 A man was fatally shot Tuesday night in the Germantown neighborhood after allegedly charging at a security guard with a knife, police said. Officers from the 14th District responded to a report of a \u201cPerson with a Gun\u201d at the 5500 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106564,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106563\/revisions\/106564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}